Hundreds of members of a hardline Islamist group attacked Hindu temples and a train in eastern Bangladesh on Sunday, police and a local journalist said, as violence spread across the country in the......
SOME 10 days after Pakistan’s Islamabad Security Dialogue saw Prime Minister Imran Khan and Chief of Army Staff Gen Qamar Javed Bajwa offering an olive branch to India amidst toned-down rhetoric on......
After a week of a protest sit-in outside the Janikhel police station in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa's Bannu district, local tribesmen and relatives of four teenage boys whose bullet-riddled bodies were found......
Myanmar security forces opened fire on Sunday, witnesses said, at people gathered for the funeral of one of the 114 people killed the previous day, the bloodiest day of protests since the military......
The National Command and Operation Centre (NCOC) on Sunday decided to ban wedding ceremonies from April 5 onwards in cities and districts where the positivity rate is above 8 per cent, as part of new......
Prime Minister Imran Khan on Sunday wished a "very happy Holi" to the Hindu community as it celebrates the occasion across Pakistan. He said the occasion was a "festival of colours".Foreign Minister......
PML-N Vice President Maryam Nawaz and Jamiat Ulema-i-Islam-Fazl (JUI-F) Chief Maulana Fazlur Rehman have suspended their political activities for some days due to their health, the spokespersons of......
As the NED Engineering University in Karachi turns 100, an academic fondly looks back at the history of engineering and engineering education in Sindh, and questions how universities can regain their......
COVID-19 brought the world to its knees. The Covid vaccine has been the most sought-after product. However, as governments around the world rush to vaccinate their citizens, some aspects need......
Two suspected suicide bombers blew themselves up outside a Catholic church in the Indonesian city of Makassar on Sunday, wounding fourteen people on the first day of the Easter Holy Week, the......
LAHORE: A 20-member Pakistan U-19 squad will tour Bangladesh next month to play a series comprising a four-day match and five 50-over games against their Bangladesh counterparts that won the ICC U-19......
KARACHI: Matloob Ahmed needed a perfect performance on Saturday. He delivered just that but he’ll need to repeat the same performance on Sunday and hope his longtime rival slips up if he’s to make it......
MIAMI: Daniil Medvedev celebrated his rise to second in the world with a seamless entry into the Miami Open on Friday, trouncing Taiwan’s Lu Yen-Hsun in less than an hour.Russia’s Medvedev needed......
LAHORE: The entire 34-member Pakistan cricket squad, including 21 players and 13 officials, have tested negative for Covid-19 in South Africa, Dawn learnt here on Saturday.This means that now the......
LAHORE/KARACHI: Haroon Malik said he felt so threatened and intimidated he had to break through a glass panel to escape the Pakistan Football Federation headquarters in Lahore on Saturday.The......
MOHMAND: Work on Mohmand Dam, the country’s largest hydropower project since the construction of Tarbela dam in 1960s, is in full swing despite hiccups caused by coronavirus pandemic.The dam is being......
KOHAT: The local elders and Khattak Ittehad leaders from Karak on Saturday threatened to block the Indus Highway over the assault and killing of a three-year-old girl and set a 72-hour deadline for......
PESHAWAR: With coronavirus claiming nine lives and infecting 979 people in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa on Saturday, the provincial government has begun considering to impose a complete lockdown in 11......
KARACHI: Chief Minister Syed Murad Ali Shah reviewing the progress of development schemes of three departments — livestock and fisheries, universities and boards, and law and prosecution — directed......
KARACHI: Allama Haider Abbas Abidi, leader of the Joint Action Committee for Shia Missing Persons, says that for the last seven years, “our Shia mourners have been missing in narrow and......
LAHORE: Former defence minister Khwaja Muhammad Asif on Saturday moved the Lahore High Court seeking post-arrest bail in an inquiry into assets beyond means and money laundering initiated against him......
LAHORE: A judicial magistrate on Saturday gave one more opportunity to singer Meesha Shafi and another to attend proceedings of a criminal case registered under the cybercrime law against the singer......
RAWALPINDI: Minister for Aviation Ghulam Sarwar Khan on Saturday admitted that the government had failed to create jobs and control prices.Addressing a press conference, he blamed the middleman for......
ISLAMABAD: The government on Saturday removed Higher Education Commission (HEC) chairman Dr Tariq Banuri.The notification removing the HEC head was issued after the promulgation of a presidential......
LAHORE: Lahore Commissioner retired Capt Muhammad Usman on Saturday warned that those found without mask at a public place will be sent behind bars, as it has been decided in principle to ensure......
ISLAMABAD: The capital on Saturday reported over 700 Covid-19 cases for the third time since the outbreak of the pandemic in March last year with the positivity rate hitting 10.74pc.Besides, two......
CAIRO: Hopes rose on Saturday that a mega-ship blocking Egypt’s Suez Canal could be refloated within days, even as the crisis forced companies to consider re-routing vessels around the southern tip......
TEHRAN: Iran and China signed a 25-year “strategic cooperation pact” on Saturday in the latest expansion of Beijing’s flagship trillion-dollar Belt and Road Initiative as the US rivals build closer......
ISTANBUL: Several thousand women took to the streets in Istanbul on Saturday to demand Turkey reverses its decision to withdraw from an international treaty against domestic abuse which it once......
PARIS: France, Belgium and Poland on Saturday tightened curbs as coronavirus cases surged in Europe while the Philippines prepared for a giant lockdown and Chile confined over 80 percent of its......
DHAKA: At least five people were shot dead as police clashed with demonstrators in Bangladesh on Saturday, a day after clashes between police and hardline protesters against a visit by Indian Prime......
KARACHI: Attock Cement Pakistan Ltd (ACPL) has recently concluded the financial close of syndicated term finance facility of Rs9.7 billion under the State Bank Of Pakistan’s Temporary Economic......
NEW YORK: Goldman Sachs Group Inc liquidated $10.5 billion worth of stocks in block trades as part of a selling spree that erased $35bn from the values of stocks of major companies, Bloomberg News......
ISLAMABAD: In response to tax default notices, the Pakistan Sugar Mills Association (PSMA) has urged the Federal Board of Revenue (FBR) to include its relevant officials in the investigation,......
KARACHI: Market stakeholders and manufacturers of goods offered different views on retail intelligence (RI) of consumer items in Pakistan, with some saying that they did it on their own while others......
KARACHI: The stock market showcased range-bound behaviour during the outgoing week. Although the KSE-100 index managed to leap forward in three of the five trading sessions, investors’ hesitation to......
HYDERABAD: The perennial price uncertainty associated with the perishable tomato crop is affecting both growers and consumers alike.Tomato consumers are forced to pay high prices due to demand and......
ISLAMABAD: The chairman of parliament’s Kashmir Committee, Shehryar Khan Afridi, on Saturday sought the international community’s intervention to help bring “genocide of Kashmiris” to an......
ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Imran Khan has warned the government officers in Balochistan that strict action will be taken against them if they do not attend official meetings related to public......
UNITED NATIONS: A UN human rights panel has expressed its concerns over “an alarming pattern of restrictions” on freedom of expression in Pakistan, urging the government to allow journalists to......
SOME 10 days after Pakistan’s Islamabad Security Dialogue saw Prime Minister Imran Khan and Chief of Army Staff Gen Qamar Javed Bajwa offering an olive branch to India amidst toned-down rhetoric on......
COVID-19 brought the world to its knees. The Covid vaccine has been the most sought-after product. However, as governments around the world rush to vaccinate their citizens, some aspects need......
ISLAMABAD: A politician from Kalat district of Balochistan has moved the Islamabad High Court (IHC) for an expeditious decision on the petition of former minister for food and agriculture Israrullah......
PHILADELPHIA (United States): A man fired a handgun into a crowd of people outside a Philadelphia bar, injuring seven people, four of them critically, police said on Saturday. The suspect was being......
• Asks the authority to consult local officials while formulating projects • Restriction on use of power over lands outside scope of ‘specified area’ISLAMABAD: The Supreme Court has allowed DHA......
KARACHI: The city would get an additional 450 megawatts of electricity this summer as the National Transmission and Dispatch Company (NTDC) has completed upgrade of 130km-long 220-kilowatt......
YANGON: As Myanmar’s military celebrated the annual Armed Forces Day holiday with a parade on Saturday in the country’s capital, soldiers and police elsewhere killed 114 people, including children,......
• Minister warns of tougher restrictions • NCOC reports highest cases in last nine months • British variant affects subcontinent • Vaccinated citizens can obtain certificatesISLAMABAD: As the British......
LAHORE: The State Bank of Pakistan (SBP) will discontinue quasi-fiscal operations or monetary actions it undertakes on behalf of the government but keep refinancing facilities it uses to support......
As the NED Engineering University in Karachi turns 100, an academic fondly looks back at the history of engineering and engineering education in Sindh, and questions how universities can regain their......
